Computer Science

Tuesday - Wednesday (12/14/10 - 12/15/10)

Agenda:

• Demo Looping with GASP Exercises
• Read and walk through Case Study: Catch
  • Basic ball motion
  • Ball bouncing
  • Keyboard control
  • Combining the above--follow the ball around!

Friday - Monday (12/10/10 - 12/13/10)

Warmup:

• Copy and paste the following code

from gasp import *          # import everything from the gasp library

begin_graphics()            # open the graphics canvas

Box((20, 20), 100, 100)     # the house
Box((55, 20), 30, 50)       # the door
Box((40, 80), 20, 20)       # the left window
Box((80, 80), 20, 20)       # the right window
Line((20, 120), (70, 160))  # the left roof
Line((70, 160), (120, 120)) # the right roof

update_when('key_pressed')  # keep the canvas open until a key is pressed
end_graphics()              # close the canvas (which would happen
                            # anyway, since the script ends here, but it
                            # is better to be explicit).

• Try changing some of the numbers in the above Box() and Line() functions...what happens? What do you think each of those numbers/arguments corresponds to?

Agenda:

• Looping with GASP Exercises

Thursday (12/9/10)

Agenda:

• IBCS1 course code change sign-up
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Wednesday (12/8/10/)

Warmup:

• Prompt the user for a number N
• Print out the first N terms of the following sequence:
  • 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, ...

Agenda:

• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Tuesday (12/7/10)

Warmup:

1. Write a loop that runs 30 times (using x as a counter variable)
   1. Inside the loop, print x*" ","*"
   2. Don't forget to increment your counter variable
2. Write another loop that runs from 30 down to 0
   1. Inside the loop, print x*" ","*"
   2. Don't forget to decrement your counter variable

Agenda:

• IBCS1 course code change sign-up
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Monday (12/6/10)

Warmup:

1. Initialize a counter variable i to 1
2. Create another variable old_i that starts at 1 also
3. Create a loop that runs up to 1000
   1. print out i and old_i on the same line (use a comma)
   2. save i into old_i
   3. increment i

• What happens when you execute the above code?

Agenda:

• IBCS1 course code change sign-up
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Friday (12/3/10)

Warmup:

1. Initialize a counter variable i to 1
2. Create another variable old_i that starts at 1 also
3. Create a loop that runs up to 1000
   1. print out i and old_i
   2. save i into old_i
   3. increment i

• What happens when you execute the above code?

Agenda:

• ASCII Star Wars
• Print Shapes Exercises
• Looping Exercises

Thursday (12/2/10)

Warmup:

1. Prompt the user for a number N
2. Initialize a counter variable named i to 0
3. Using a loop, print out all the numbers up to N

Agenda:

• Early release today
• Demo missing Print Shapes Exercises
• Looping Exercises
• Introduction to GASP (graphics with Python)
• Looping with GASP Exercises

Wednesday (12/1/10)

Warmup:

• Create a loop counter variable i that starts at 0
• Write a loop that counts down from 0 through -10 (What would the condition be?)
  • Print i inside the loop
  • Don't forget to decrement i!

Agenda:

• Demo missing Chapter 5 Exercises
• Guessing Game Assignment
• Print Shapes Exercises

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